QUALITY OF BUTTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 14

QUALITY OF BUTTER.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I suppose it was unbelief that made you put the blue pencil through my statement that the milking machine was one cause of our inferior butter. But what about the following?: "As a result of tests in Dakota, ranging from seven months to over five years with seven makes of machines, it has been demonstrated that even when everything possible is done to keep the pails, tubes and cups scrupulously clean, the average number of germs in milk obtained by milking machines is about fifteen times greater than in milk taken by hand in a protected pail. Hence, even when these machines are used by experts, it is greatly to be feared that they will prove an insidious variety of the old long-tubed feeding bottles, now justly condemned as death traps for infants." As regards this country, a young neighbuor of mine told mc he was going to put in a milking machine, but he said: "Not like So-and-so's. There are too many maggots around that." You will notice, sir, the Yankee speaks of germs; young New Zealand of maggots.—l am, etc., ROWLAND HELL. Otuhi.